King Edward's School, Birmingham A GSG School
- King Edward's School, Birmingham
Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham
B15 2UA - Head: Dr Katy Ricks
- T 01214 721672
- F 01214 154327
- E admissions@kes.org.uk
- W kes.org.uk/
- An independent school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Birmingham
- Pupils: 908; sixth formers: 242
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: £17,046 pa
- Open days: March and June; December (sixth form only)
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Results are a given – these are, as one parent pointed out, ‘abnormally smart boys’. But the approach to learning is far from rote or exam oriented, and it’s not about everyone getting A*s or excelling at everything. Rather, the school stands out for academic breadth, enrichment and breeding a culture of intellectual curiosity. The boys need no persuading to spend breaks and lunchtimes enhancing their learning, and they are highly aspirational. No wonder many teachers consider this...
What the school says...
One of the key aims of King Edward's School is to ensure that it is accessible to all pupils of ability, whatever their background. We do all we can to ensure that we get the boys who have the greatest potential to succeed here. To that end, as well as our entrance examinations we make use of other information to choose pupils: school reports are very important and we interview a very high proportion of applicants. Also, the school makes an exceptionally large number of awards of means-tested Assisted Places, based on family income and academic performance, and Scholarships, based on academic performance alone. Around 40% of boys have some form of financial support and over 10% are here for free. Our long-term intention is to increase that proportion to an even higher level.
The school normally accepts boys at 11+, 13+ and 16+, although boys are admitted into other year groups in exceptional circumstances, for example when a family moves into the area.
11+ and 13+ entrance exam consists of English, Mathematics and verbal reasoning. 16+ offers are based on an interview, predicted GCSE grades and headteacher's report. ...Read more
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
Sports
Fencing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Chief master
Since 2019, Katy Ricks. Educated at Camden School for Girls, English degree from Oxford. The school’s first female head, and not for the first time either - she was the first female head of Sevenoaks School before this. The big question on everyone’s lips was whether she’d still be called chief master, she laughs. ‘But why wouldn’t you? It’s the best title there is!’ Turned to teaching shortly after marrying her academic husband: ‘I decided one of us better get a job!’ she quips. Career choice clinched by first teaching role at St Paul’s School for Girls where ‘talking about literature turned out to be just as enjoyable as studying it.' Aspirations to be a head soon followed: ‘It was seeing Heather Brigstocke in action - I thought, “I want to do that!”’...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
By the definition of 'Gifted and Talented', virtually all pupils at King Edward's School would qualify. Therefore our curriculum provision incorporates teaching strategies to stimulate and stretch the most able as a matter of course. Within the school however, we take Special Educational Needs very seriously and to that end we employ both a SENCO and a part-time support teacher as well.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Blue Coat School Birmingham | 2023 | 28 | 4 | Music Scholarship; Academic Scholarships (3) |
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